Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.

Everyone fights an American war.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking... but not truly seeing.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.